has to be love for the music for me. at some point in my life i started buying cds because i loved the music. then all of a sudden i had a shitload of them. then i decided that it might be fun trying to mix the tunes together so i bought my first gear (after saving like mad and spending most of my money on cds).

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I got into trance in 96/97 (mainly goa), and started buying cds and signles. In 2000, I bought my first decks and mixer... so at age 14 I began to mix. Didn't get good at it tilla round 15/16... and now here I am, 23 and kicking ass. Tho now I prefer a digital and analog mixing system.

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Originally posted by RJT I think it's more like throwing a baby shower for an abortion.

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Originally posted by Kevy Kev When I lived in Vegas I once peed in the elevator at the MGM, cut it off mid stream to let a family get in then finished peeing when they got out of the elevator.

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Originally posted by Alex A DJ killed my dad, so I had to train hard at beatmatchez so I could win back my father's honor in an epic DJ battle with my arch rival.

haha!

i got sick of going out and having to listen to shit music. now i make others listen to "my" shit music. good times.

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Originally posted by Alex A DJ killed my dad, so I had to train hard at beatmatchez so I could win back my father's honor in an epic DJ battle with my arch rival.

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That is awesome

oh, sorry about your Dad, too.

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i grew up in the 80's looking up to hip-hop dj's and breakdancing, i was just amazed and drawn to it. so obviously i spin trance and not hip-hop but i still love the old school hip-hop dj's, not so much the new ones.

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Lost my mind n sanity at Aria, Montreal
It's neva coming back...
But each time I spin, I channel that Aria vibe into my sound and it's like I'm rejuvenated back to when I was 18.
It's sorta like a blast from the past going on.
Aria.......................

Long story short, my uncle was a big time resident dj in a club in Brazil in his early years. He showed me his old ass set up one day, after I was already listening to daft punk and some euro dance pop cheese on my own, when I was turning 14 and I fell in love. Couple months later he gave me all his gear and that's when went down the rabbit hole. None of the gear works anymore but boy I still wanna keep that junk..

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I've always had an intimate passion for the music...but quite frankly what did it for me was my first time @ Space and saw Oscar G tear that main room into fuccin bits...From then on, I know that I wanted to do the same thing

armand van heldens song 'koochy' - first rave i ever went to was a massive and walked in and koochy was playing and saw everyone was dressed hip and cool and thought finally some pimp shit.

I gained an interest in DJ'ing when I was about 13, around the same time that I was transitioning from Hip-Hop and Top-40 to cheesy dance/Trance music. I started downloading various mixing programs such as PCDJ and Traktor, and would call into the local Hip-Hop station on the weekends, during the little noon hour where they had an actual DJ in, and try to suggest different types of transitions into different tracks (yeah, ).

After a while I progressed to listening solely to dance music and whored Tiesto like crazy. A few years passed by and I came across Zabiela. Everything he did was what really fascinated me; the fact that it wasn't just track-to-track and still sounded great. I think that whole aspect is what really motivated me to get gear. I bought one CDJ and would mix back and forth (sans EQs) between that and whatever I had playing on Traktor on my PC. Then I picked up another CDJ + Xone:62, and eventually an EFX-500.

Now I'm at the point where I have two broken CDJs and one functional one. Until I can afford new ones my current setup is a borrowed Radium-49 keyboard, Ableton and my EFX.

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I mentioned that I used really lame DJ software before I got decks, and I cannot stress enough how helpful I found them to be. Sure, you can't really learn how to beatmatch with them. That's a given. However, they helped me to define what I liked to play, how to create flow, and how to phrase-match. Once I picked up my decks the only thing that I needed to do (and was a piece of cake) was learn to beatmatch, as I'd already taught myself everything else. To this day I highly recommend using cheap DJ software while you're saving for gear.

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Sure, you can't really learn how to beatmatch with them.

Actually, I learned to beatmatch on Traktor. But, I went in with the intent of doing so... I did everything manually so that I could learn the skill and not rely on the computer. It worked... I can beatmatch other media too.

I started listening to EDM back in 99 around the time of the EM World Tour. I kept on listening and then I got into ASOT back around '03 and that's where I really started listening to the actual transitions themselves. I got a copy of Virtual DJ and mixed on my computer for a few years. That helped me to learn phrasing and the eqs. Finally, I '06, I bit the bullet and bought cdjs and a mixer. I've since added a midi controller and a laptop with Torq.

I will say this though, there is nothing like learning by your ears FIRST vs. just using a DVS with visual aids to help. Forcing myself to do it ears only made all the difference.

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Click the link below to stream all of my mixes past and present. New mixes go up about once a month. Enjoy!

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